10-letter words containing m, e, r, c, a, s
- race music — blues-based music or jazz by and for African Americans in the 1920s and 1930s, when it was regarded as a distinctive, separate market by the music industry; early jazz or rhythm-and-blues.
- ramshackle — dilapidated, run down
- reaccustom — to familiarize by custom or use; habituate: to accustom oneself to cold weather.
- reichsmark — the monetary unit of Germany from November, 1924, until 1948. Compare Deutsche mark, mark2 (def 1), ostmark.
- revanchism — an advocate or supporter of a political policy of revanche, especially in order to seek vengeance for a previous military defeat.
- rheumatics — pertaining to or of the nature of rheumatism.
- sacramento — a state in the W United States, on the Pacific coast. 158,693 sq. mi. (411,015 sq. km). Capital: Sacramento. Abbreviation: CA (for use with zip code), Cal., Calif.
- samothrace — a Greek island in the NE Aegean.
- sarcolemma — the membranous sheath of a muscle fiber.
- scampering — to run or go hastily or quickly.
- scarcement — a footing or ledge formed by a setoff in a wall.
- scent-mark — to deposit a scent mark; mark.
- schumacher — Ernst Friedrich (ɛrnst ˈfriːdrɪç). 1911–77, British economist, born in Germany. He is best known for his book Small is Beautiful (1973)
- secularism — secular spirit or tendency, especially a system of political or social philosophy that rejects all forms of religious faith and worship.
- semaphoric — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
- semisacred — partly or somewhat sacred; sacred to a limited degree; having some characteristics of the sacred
- serviceman — a member of the armed forces of a country.
- shoe cream — cream for polishing shoes
- simple arc — a curve that does not cross itself and has no points missing; a curve that can be put into one-to-one correspondence with the closed interval from 0 to 1.
- smart alec — smart aleck.
- smart-alec — smart aleck.
- smear-case — any soft cheese suitable for spreading or eating with a spoon, especially a sour cottage cheese.
- sour cream — cream soured by the lactic acid produced by a ferment.
- space mark — a proofreader's symbol used to indicate the need to insert space, as between two typed or printed words that have been run together. Symbol: #.
- specmark89 — (benchmark) An old SPECmark benchmark result derived from a set of floating-point and integer benchmarks. It is the geometric mean of ten SPEC ratios of the outdated 1989 SPEC benchmark suite. The use of SPECmark89 is strongly discouraged, having been superseded by CINT92 and CFP92.
- spermaceti — a pearly white, waxy, translucent solid, obtained from the oil in the head of the sperm whale: used chiefly in cosmetics and candles, and as an emollient.
- spermaduct — a spermatic passage found in male animals
- spy camera — a hidden, disguised or miniature camera used in espionage
- supermacho — extremely macho
- surfaceman — a labourer, such as a miner, who works at the surface
- swarm cell — the amebalike germinated spore cell of myxomycetes.
- tetrasemic — equal to four short syllables
- the-scream — a painting (1937) by Edvard Munch.
- unscramble — to bring out of a scrambled condition; reduce to order or intelligibility.
- war crimes — Usually, war crimes. crimes committed against an enemy, prisoners of war, or subjects in wartime that violate international agreements or, as in the case of genocide, are offenses against humanity.